Publications

Publication details [#55387]

Farrell, Martin Peter. 2011. Bilingual competence and students' achievement in Physics and Mathematics. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 14 (3) : 335–345.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | examination | language proficiency | mathematics

Language as a subject

English | Maltese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

The findings of this study seem to confirm the ‘threshold hypothesis’, first introduced by Jim Cummins, in that bilingual Maltese-English 13-year-old students, who were highly skilled in both languages, best accomplished their respective Physics and Mathematics examinations.